Shutter for moving-picture cameras.



G. W. BINGHAM.

SHUTTER POR MOVING PIGTUREYGAMERAS. APPLICATION FILED DEC.15,1910.

1,129,327. Patented.' Feb. 1915.

@my M fum i hierin GEORGE W'. BEING-HAM, Q? IEROOKLYN, NEW YORK SEUTTEB, EUR JIGVING-EICTEE CJQERS.

ZST. Specification of Letters 22a-tent.

Application led December l5, 1910.

T0 all whom 'it may concern Be it known that I, Gnonois lV. Brzvsrnmr, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the borough of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings, city and Stat-e of New York, have invented certain nenY and use- 'ful improvements in Shutters for ll/loving- Picture Cameras, of which the following` is aspecification.

ln the taking ofthe so-called moving pictures, i have found that the best results are obtained by exposing the pictures progressively instead of all at once (the letter being the usual way).

The object of the present invention is to provide improved and simplified, as well as more eicient mechanism for securing` this progressive exposure of the pictures. laccoinplish this object hy means oiia shutter having a light aperture therein, the shutter being moved so that this light aperture will pass across the face ofthe ilin framed in the exposure opening of the camera. This shutter is preferably reciprocated or oscillated past the enposure opening and the timing of the parts is preferably such that the shutter will move in one direction to expose one picture and then in the opposite direction to vexpose the next picture; For this pun pose the shutter may be given an up and down movement, and the nlm will he shifted loy suitable means, onepicture at a time, ar"- ter each movement of the shutter.

Another object of my invention just the shutter to varying light conditions. This object I attain by regulating the size ot the light aperture in the shutter. As a preferred way of accomplishing this result, l preferably make the shutter of two blades which are spaced apart to provide a light aperture between them, the two olades having a bodily movement past the exposure opening and a reguletahle movement toward each other to adjust the size of the light aperture.

Various other features of the invention will appear as the speciication proceeds.

ln the accompanying drawings l have illustrated several preferred embodimentsof the invention, 1out l would have it understood that various changes andmodiiications may he made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention;

in. drawings: Figure l is a in eleis to ad! Serial No. 597,429.

vation or a preferred form or my invention, certain of the parte oi the camera heing` shown in section, and other parts being 'I represented diagrammatically.

Fig. 2 is a detail sectional View taken on the line 2-2 `of Fig. i, Fig'. is ahroken elevation o a slightly modified 'form of the invention..

ig. Il is a view of another modiiicat in.

The saine referencecharacters reiter` to like parts throughout the several views.

in its preferred torni the shutter is made up of two shutter blades l, carried by' shutter arms 2 iv 'eh pivoted on a common center 3. The movement ois the shutter may be either a reciprocating or an oscillating one, and in the drawings l have shown the latter form, The tivo shutter blaces are spaced apart so as to provide a light aperture 4 hetween the adjacent edges of the blades, and the shutter as a whole is so shifted with respect to the exposure opening; 5 of the machine that, in the movement of the shutter, the light aperture will pass across the face of the film framed in the exposure opening. This exposure opening may he 'formed in the partition or wall 6 of the machine, and the lilm will preferably.

`loe backed up hy a door or clampinlfiM niemlier 7. this member serving' to properly hold the film with respect to the exposure opening. f

The ineens for operating the shuttermay vary, but l prefer to employ for this purpose a cranlrdisk 8 and a connecting rod 9, the said counectinf;I d carrying at upper end a wrist 'i 'l0 in engagement with either one or oon oi" the shutter arms 2. "in Fig. l this wrist pin is shown as'engag ingr hoth of `the shutter arms, it being engaged in intersecting slots il in th'erespective arms.. while in Fig. 3 this 'wrist pin is shown as being secured direct to one of the shutter arms (the lower one in this instance).

it will he obvious that hyfadjust'ing the 'shutter blades toward or away from each ice movable member 12 having an extension 13 pivotally connected thereto at the point l-l. This pivoted extension carries a pin or projection which engages inthe intersecting slots of the shutter arms. rl`his pin may be the wrist pin itself. as illustrated in Fig. l, but when the wrist pin is connected direct to one of the shutter arms, as in. Fig. 3, then an independent pin l u'ill have to be employed. The moyable member is suitably mounted, as by being engaged in the guiding members'l. From this'it will be clear that when the movable member is moved inward. the connecting pin Will be pushed inward in the intersecting slots, thereby drawing the shutter blades closer together. A reverse movement will Widen the light aperture between the blades. The movable member may be shifted by any suitable means, and in the present instance this means'is shown in the form of a screw 1'? engaged in a lug 18 on the movable member, the screw being held against longitudinal. movement in a bearing 19 which may be carriedin the front Wall :'20 of the ma-` Aluy suitable gearing may be employed, for operating the various parts oi the machine. iig. l these gears are indicated in dotted lines. Suitable means will be employed for intermittently advancing the film. in the drawings this lm advancing means is .shown in the form of a double-ended member 2l over which the, 'ilm passes, as indicated, and which in itself is pivoted rock on the center 22 located between its ends. A cam 23 or equivalent device may be employed tor imparting the oscillating movement to the film advancing member, said memberl having an arm 2% carrying the roll 25 which engages the cam. The parts are so proportioned that the shutter will produce two exposures to each cycle of operation, it being evident that one exposure will be made during the down stroke oi: the shutter and another exposure during the up stroke of the shutter.. The lilm' advancing mean-s is timed to act after ,each of Athese exposures, at a time when the exposure opening is covf ered by one oai the 'shutter blades. rEhe iilni t" fancing mea-,ns ythus advances the iilm twice each` reciprocation olf the shutter.

will be noted that `with the form in the invention' illustrated in Fig. l, when the shutter blades are adjusted to change the size of the light aperture, the Wrist pin will be shifted, thereby altering the point of leverage exerted on theslrutter arms, with the other parte of the machine.

result that the speed of movement of the shutter will be changed with respect to the movement of the lilm advancing means or For instance. when in this figure the Wrist pin is shifted by means of a movable member inward or es toward the exposure operaia@ the pin movi,12e,s27 v ing in the intersecting slots will draw the shutter blades together and at the saine time the distance between the VWrist pin and the ,tulcrum point 8 of the shutter will be increased.' This increased distance between the fulcrum and the point of applied power will cause the shutter to be moved slower. Thus in this form of the invention, when the size oi' the light aperture is decreased the speed of movement of the shutter will be reduced. I find it more advantageous, however, to increasethe speed of the movement of the shutter as the size of the light aper-v increased. Gn thel other hand, when the* wrist pinyis shifted toward the fulcrum ,point and the speed of the shutter is increased, then the size ofthe light 'aperture is reduced. This feature of 4altering the s eed of movement of the shutter is not con ned solely to a camera shutter, as l may adapt this sameV idea to the shutter of a projector.

The claims on thisfeature are to be construed in this light.

lWhat is claimed, is; i, l. ln a camera a pair of oscillating shutter blades mounted upon a common axis,VL

said blades being spaced apart and a. common means for adjusting said blades While in operation.

2. ln arcamera a pair of shutter blades lim mounted upon a common axis, said blades being spaced apart and a common means for adjusting said blades, said means adapted to simultaneously adjust said blades 3. A shutteiior moving picture machines comprising shutter arms pivote-d on a common center, shutter blades carried by said arms,-means for bodily oscillating the arms and the blades carriedthereby, and an adjustable connection ybetween the rarms Afor varying the distance between the blades.

ll. A shutter for movingpicture machines comprising tivo shutter blades with their adjacent edges spaced apart to constitute alight aperture therebetweemrineans for bodily Vibrating said shutter blades, and means for adjusting the shutter blades toward and away from each other to vary the size of the light aperture.`

5. A shutter for `mcwiug picture machines comprising two shutter blades pivoted one. common center with their adjacent edges `spaced apart to constitute a. light aperture therebetween, means for adjusting Said blades toward and away from each other to vary the size of the light aperture, and

means for bodily oscillating the shutterv blades about the said common center.

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M2932? i ai meehme provided with an exposure opening,

@shutter comprising e pair of shuttex: blades plvoved on e @emmen eenel, 'with their edga- .een edges spaced apart $9 provide alia-gh@ epertui'e herebeween, means for bodily eseietmg ehe shutter bla-aes en the commen center te @any he h'hi; apelimre est he expesm'e opening, an meansV 'ferie justing lle bades eveei and away from ealch other during the movement thereof se very the size of the hght aerture.

Slgned at New erk city in the ceunty of New York and' State of New York @his le day of December A. D. 1910.,

I GEORGE W,BINGHAM.

g Witnesses:

LAURA E. SMITH, PHILIP S. MCLEAN. 

